Italy beat Ghana 2-0 in its World Cup opening match -- as good an excuse as any to party in the streets, I guess. And that's what the Azzuri's fans did on College Street after the game.

Ken Thomson, retired chairman of Thomson Corp. has died at age 82.

Here's the CTV.ca story. Here's the Globe and Mail's news story and its obituary.

Sigh. another story about how some kids are losing internships and whatnot because of their excessively revelatory personas on social networking sites.

Nicole Bengiveno of the New York Times captured this image at the Biloxi, Miss. summer fair. It illustrates an article on the recovery along Highway I-90 of the Gulf Coast in the wake of the 2005 hurricane Katrina disaster.

This Toronto Star piece looks at the U.S. military's motives for showing photos of the now-dead, most psychopathic Islamofascist militant in Iraq -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Or at least West Bank Palestinians and Israelis. Both are getting gouged by TV companies who want an arm and a leg to watch World Cup games.

A Toronto Star feature about the first women's team in the Canadian Fly Fishing championships.